The February 26, 2026 show is a Flashback to October 29, 2017.

It includes:

• Lapis Road RV HomeDwellers Association  30 Day Updatehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By3CuDOGMVo
• Activist and communitarian camper Mike Zint’s “Here…There” Berkeley Update
• Berkeley’s KPFA Up Front: Eviction of homeless during the Hepatis outbreak.
• Demands for a Rent Freeze at Santa Cruz Shitty Council
• Brent Adams Warming Center Update
• Food Not Bombs meal update  Rioberto, Ricardo Lopoez, Abbi Samuels, and others
• Renters and Homeless: When Can Folks Unite?: Affordable Housing Chitter Chatter: Lady Jane Ann & Jimmie Jones
• Mama Shannon:  Perjury by Park Rangers

The February 22, 2026  show includes:

• Bathrobespierre’s activist updates concerning shelter services cutoffs and sweep terrorism
• [throughout]   Various songs in the wake of the ICE murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti (as well as Keith Porter, Jr., Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres, Geraldo Lunas Campos, Víctor Manuel Díaz, Parady La, Luis Beltrán Yáñez–Cruz, Heber Sánchez Domínguez,
• https://lookout.co/letter-to-the-editor-housing-matters-has-lost-its-way/story  (1-30-26 letter to Lookout by former employee turned critic David Davis)
• https://lookout.co/housing-matters-has-helped-thousands-lets-argue-about-homelessness-and-day-services-honestly/story  (2-8-26 letter to Lookout by Housing Matters exec Ray Bomson)
• https://lookout.co/the-facts-on-housing-matters-day-services-dont-match-the-narrative/story  {2-12-26 letter to Lookout by David Davis)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhZbMvoT5no   Three Shots – A Song for Renee Good | The Midnight Republic https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/deadline-looms-for-federal-evidence-sought-in-renee-good-case/ar-AA1WvQf5
• 28-year veteran Council watcher “Scope it Out” Scott details  the 2-24 S.C. Shitty Council Agenda
• [2-21] Joel Kappa searching for Section 8 advice
• Mama Shannon on the lack of triage for traumatic people faced with drugs and cubicles—training women instead to provide their own income with food carts.

The February 19, 2026 show is a Flashback to February 26, 2017 which includes a Flash within a Flash to March 2, 2002  with some 2017 comments. 

It includes:

• Former Seaside Councilman and Black Panther activist Mel Mason on police abuse and the police murder of Charles Vaughn Sr.
• Venice homeless activist David Busch on his arrest in a sports bar for ordering a cup of coffee while wearing an “unhoused” sign around his neck
• UCSC Steve HUFF organizer’s Update
• Battling” Bob Lamonica on Rudeness Downtown
• Attorney Jim Fossbinder and “Beggarbacker” Becky Johnson on her LAPD lawsuit for beating at the 2000 Democratic National Convention [DNC]
• Ben Mazel on LAPD Violence at the DNC
• Ed Howes, The Janitor, Linda Lemaster, Dangerous John T.  and more

The February 15, 2026 show includes:

•    “Cornerstone”  Carol Denney critiques recent behavior of its newly “reformed” review body over the Berkeley Police Department
• [3-11] Hot Dog and Survival Giveaway on Coral Street in front of Funding Matters [FM] (aka Housing Matters) by Santa Cruz Homeless Union and HUFF
• Articulate growlings from Abe while working on his cart/bike
• Jessa, occasional FM user describes and  denounces polices and cutbacks of FM.
• 2-14 Valentine’s Day update from Caregiver Cooper
• Organizer Alicia Kuhl describes a recent Zoom meeting by MHCAN supporters and members hoping to reopen the services.
• Bill and Bruce speak up with mixed reports.

The Flashback to February 12, 2017

• Further Flashback to 2004 –Visionsong Valerie’s Copwatch/Free Radio Call-in Table
• [10-4-04] Spitter Investigation—Denise, Drew, & Sara’s account
• [9-29-04] Ray G,,  Coral B., V-Man, Roxanne A., Joe W., Skidmark Bob, Dennis D., Becky J.,  & others  at the FCC’s seizure of the FRSC Equipment
• [9-29-04] Supervising Deputy Sheryl Cole Responds to Questions; Mayor Kennedy makes a statement
• [Feb 2017] Voices from Freedom SleepOut [FS] #83 & City Council meeting: Abbi S. , Elise
• Elise on UC’s attack on the student Trailer Park and organizing for rent control
• Dreamcatcher gives homespun defense of SCPD  ticketeers.
• Upcoming City Council Agenda antics; Bad Behavior Reports
• “False Report in Santa Cruz” [of Meth Giveaway—Keith McHenry [KM] hoax]
• San Francisco denies permit for Summer of Love Concert
• “$1.5 million settlement reached in killing of L.A.  Black man”—Ezell Ford shooting in 2014 https://apnews.com/general-news-8d98d36e2ff34acba51a4c75afdc012f
• FS #83 Interviews: KM on effectiveness of FS strategy, Sonny & Bear on Fooding, Brandon on Tenants Rights
• Update: SCPD’s Ken Deeg’s anti-homeless No Parking signs on Coral, Fern, and Limekiln Streets

The February 12, 2026 show is a Flashback to the February 19, 2017 show.  It includes:

• L.A./Santa Monica activist David Busch on homeless use of the Unruh Civil Rights Act to fight bigotry in public accommodations
• Beggarbacker Becky Johnson interviews her attorney Jim Fossbinder on their successful lawsuit against LAPD brutality
•  Long-time police accountability activist Mel Mason on the Seaside cops slaying of Charles Vaughn after a “Mental Health” call
• Free the Land show by broadcaster Free on Pacific Avenue police abuse
• Making Contact:  Mumia Abu Jamal documentary “Long Distance Revolutionary” excerpts

The February 8, 2026 show includes:

[throughout] David Rovics AI Tsumo Band “Save the Humans” release https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition/20260204/281668261409709   Data: Police Use More Force on Homeless

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/18/police-identify-man-shot-by-south-san-francisco-cops/   Man Shot by Police Now Faces Charges

HUFFsters at the 2-5 meeting discuss Funding Matters financial questions https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/05/stanford-pro-palestinian-activists-vandalism-trial-deadlock/https://www.paloaltoonline.com/education/2026/01/30/attorneys-deliver-closing-statements-in-stanford-felony-trial/

Whipmaster Wes White on the rent control struggle and strategies for homeless defense

Alicia Kuhltalks to HUFFsters on stopping the Funding Matters service cutoffs.

[2-7] Victor denounces S.C. gentrification

Candlight Kim on oldtime squatting with Homes Not Jails

“Rugged Road” Robert’s list of latest troubles; “Trees” on his FNB support work and life

The Flashback to April 15, 2015 includes:

https://www.cgaa.org/article/history-of-wells-fargo-scandals ; current anti-W.F. protest

Phone Interview with Al Williams, formerly homeless Fresno activist, housed by the Kinkaid settlement and FUCF (the Free United Coalition of Fresno)

Danika De Foy on holding off police at the remnants of the Occupy Santa Cruz movement.

George on protest at the upcoming Well Fargo Shareholders Meeting

Stewart Alexander on the Peace & Freedom Party and Socialist Party USA.

Silver-tongued Steve Pleich on Project Connect & Support for the SC-11.

Carol Denney: “Non-Violence Defeated UC Davis PD”

The February 5, 2026 show is a Flashback to August 30, 2001 includes:

• Bill Vaughn, anti-war opponent of depleted uranium weapons and homeless UCSC resident, tells of cop evictions & speaks favorably of Camp Paradise
• FRSC Broadcaster Earth Mommer grills Bathrobespierre by phone, asks what he’d do on City Council.
• https://lawreview.law.miami.edu/criminalization-homelessness-post-pottinger-world/
• Florida attorney Arthur Rosenberg on the aftermath of the Pottinger settlement protecting Miami and Ft. Lauderdale homeless engaging in life-sustaining behavior.
• “Dangerous John” updates the Mumia Abu Jamal case

The February 1, 2026  Show includes:

• “Sweeping Encampments to Reduce Homelessness is a Santa Cruz Numbers Game not a Solution”
• https://www.rt.com/podcast/631779-deep-state-exists-johnson/ by John Kiriakou
• [1-30] Joe in a wheelchair at the Town Clock as anti-ICE abuse youth march happens around him
• [1-31] A 2nd anti-Ice protest at Food Not Bombs: Anonymous reports on homeless feed in Monterey
• Craig Rubel on FNB with mainstay Drew recovering from an accident
• FNB co-founder Keith McHenry & volunteer security Roach report

The Flashback to Aug 15, 1999 includes:

• Joel Kappa’s personal struggle against corruption in local courts, accusing Judge Black
• Squeegee woman Patches account of harassment for her car window washing
• Dragonfly on police shutdown of  Dark Goddess Vigil at the Town Clock
• V-Man (Vinnie Lombardo) claims undue FRSC time focusing on KPFA’s firings rather than micropower station news.
• Lighthouse Linda Lemaster talks about the Homeless Icky Task Farce
• Jane Baer, Beach Flats resident and landlord, fighting for fairness with Dolphin-Lee project
• “Battlin’” Bob Lamonica critiquing the “progressive” SCAN (Santa Cruz Action Network)
• Lemaster on Rental Housing Current Initiatives and Herstory
• Baer on “Steadfast” Steve Argue’s jailing for defending Julianna and her child from Officer Lefever.
• “Dead On” David Silva critiques the criticism of Lemaster, supports Hate-Free Zone Initiative

The January 29, 2026 show is a Flashback to August 12, 1999. 

It includes:

• May 22nd Anti-War Protest and Arrests of the Santa Cruz Five & attendant police brutality
• City Council Antics; Latest Police Review Board [CPRB] Right-wing Lisa Rose Appointee
• [difficult to hear] Fred Geiger opposing tax giveaway to Seaside Corp  before City Council
• Berkeley attorney Osha Neuman on Lockdown, Arrests & Corporate Takeover of KPFA
• Oakland activist Alade Djehuti Mes, son of Charles Vaughn Sr. murdered by Seaside PD

The January 25, 2026 show includes:

• Status Coup audio of ICE’s assault on Obladiah Allen in Minneapolis in mid-January
• https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/23/roaming-charges-are-we-not-men-no-we-are-davos/
• [throughout] Rovics Ai Tsuno music and commentary
• Troy’s Wednesday morning’s Coral St. sweep report; HUFFster expands Troy’s report
• [1-24-26] Keith’s stormy day report

The Flashback to October 11, 2015 which itself leaps back to the entire March 17, 2002 show which includes:

• Arrested for a silent “stop acting like Nazis” gesture—the Heil Krohn! Case that led to 10 years of court struggle
• Demands to the Krohn Council:
• [3-7] Jerry Henry facing Ali Baba’s repression at his Café on Pacific Ave.in Court
• Henry & Scott Rhodes, in-studio guests, on community need to enforce Unruh Public Accommodations Act
• Amy Courtney Bedsheets Bandista with anti-war placards on Hiway 1 overpass
• [2-29] Santa Barbara’s Nuff Said Nancy McCrady & Beaming Bob Hansen fighting City’s RV ban
• Phil Free’s sings “Hospitality Nazis”
• [3-2] Interview with Santa Monica Denny’s “Virtual Lodger” “Darkwatcher” David Busch
• Sleeping Ban and strategies to deal with police interaction…